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Why would Francesco Cardinal Pompedda attribute sedevacantism to Society of St. Pius X in La Stampa interview amidst talks of reconciliation?

This letter was also mailed to His Eminence, and circulated among Bishops & some of the Roman Curia.
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Too much to ask, to provide non-territorial personal apostolic jurisdiction for Anglo-Catholics?

Here follows another example from NCCL’s ‘TOP SECRET’ archives.

For more on the subject of Anglo-Catholic reunion with the Holy See, visit this page on NCCL’s website.

Certainly, since the Pope has provided non-territorial personal jurisdiction for the tradition-minded Anglo-Catholics and Episcopalians, he could do so for those who share similar legitimate aspirations for tradition in the Latin church and in the Eastern Catholic churches, as well as for those Orthodox who are faithful to tradition.

January 21, 2004

Rev. Fr. Richard S. Bradford, Chaplain
Congregation of St. Athanasius
192 Foster Street
Brighton, MA 02135-4620
617/787-0553

Reverend and dear Father Bradford,

Thank you very much for speaking last week. Please pardon the delay in writing. I enclose as promised the report on the canonical erection of the Personal Apostolic Administration of St. John Marie Vianney in Campos, Brazil.
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Urgent appeal to a sympathetic Bishop to beg the Pope to extend the faculty to celebrate or to assist at the Mass of the Roman Rite according to its 1962 form

The Bishop, who has not yet granted permission to publish the following promemoria, favorably replied to the appeal. NCCL received subsequent indication from Rome that the appeal was met with the usual opposition from liberals and served the encouragement of the rest … which is history of a remarkable kind since July 7, 2007. (more…)

Prelude to a motu proprio

As the executive director was being received in audience by a sympathetic bishop (confer this post), scores & scores of collaborators — finally hundreds, according to records — were begging the Holy Father, (more…)